Closure for containers



Dec. 4 1923.

S. F. NAHM CLOSURE FOR CONTAINERS Filed Jan. 8. 1923 Patented Dec. 4, i923,

STATES iJNlTE ATENT QFFEQE CLOSURE FOR CONTAINERS.

Application filed January 8, Serial No, 611,377.

To all whom it may concern Be it known, that I, SUNsmNn F. NAHM, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Bowling Green, in the county of lVarren and State of Kentucky, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Closures for Containers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to closures, and particularly to a measuring device which is formed as a part of the closure.

The invention provides a top or closure for containers of box-like form, or cartons which is provided, as a matter of convenience, with a cavity or depression depressed therein so as to lie below the upper surface of said top, and which will be of the correct size to measure accurately a pre 0 determined quantity of material, such as of the substance which is in the container. By providing the spoon or other measuring element as a part of the top to the vessel, it will be seen that the measuring operation may be performed at any time, and without the necessity of procuring a spoon, or other measuring elementwhieh, under some conditions, would be quite inconvenient.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate by way of example, a device embodying the invention,

Fig. 1 shows the top of a container, in plan, together with the measuring device, and

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. a

A suitable container 5, for any substance in solid, liquid, or powdered form, is provided with a slip-cover 3, having a depending portion 4 which snugly embraces the top of the vessel 5. The cover 3 is herein shown as provided with a depression 6, formed integral with the cover and made in the form of a spoon. The depression 6 may be of the size of a teaspoon, a dessert spoon, or a table spoon, and is for the purpose of measuring portions of the contents of the container fi as the same are intended for use. If desired, in lieu of having the depression 6 in the form of a spoon, it may be circular, or of any other desired configuration, provided, of course, it is of the size to accurately measure predetermined quantity of material, as for example, the material in the container 5.

Although I have illustrated the measuring cavity 6 as being a depression of the material of the top 3, it is obvious that the bowl. of a spoon may be set in a cut out portion of the top, thereby constituting a continuation of the top to the same extent as where the material is depressed as in the form illustrated in the drawings.

It will be obvious that with a measuring cavity depressed in the top of a container it will be unnecessary to find a spoon to measure a quantity of the material as the measuring implementis formed as a part of the top of the container, and is always at hand. With the spoon positioned as shown in the drawings, with its point or front end adjacent to corner of the container top, the material which is measured in the spoonshaped depression may be readily poured into a glass or other vessel by resting the lower edge of the corner of the flange 4 upon the top of said vessel, and tilting the closure 3 to discharge the contents of the spoon 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A top for a container made of sheet material, and provided with a cavity which occupies a fractional part of its entire upper surface and which lies below that portion of said surface which is not occupied by the cavity, said cavity being of a size to measure a predetermined quantity of material.

2. A top for a container of sheet material having a spoon-shaped depression which lies wholly below the upper surface of the top and occupies a fractional part of said top only, said depression being formed out of the material of the top by forcing said material out of the plane of the upper surface of said top.

3. A rectangular-shaped top for a container made of sheet material, the upper portion of said top being depressed to present a spoon-shaped cavity, said cavity 10- e ated with its major axis coincident with the diagonal connecting two corners of said top, the forward end of said cavity being arranged adjacent to a corner of the top 4. A rectangular-shaped top for oonta'm- In testimony whereof I have hereunto ers made of sheet material and provided set my hand this 30th day of December" with a depression or cavity in the shape 13.19.1922.

of 21 spoon for measuring material, the point SUNSHINE F. NAHM. or forward end of the spoon-shaped. depresfiltnesses: S1011 belng located achacent one corner of E. S. GRIFFIN,

the top. V. J. STILL. 

